| Lana Del Rey – Without You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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He is her love and her life, but he is no good for her. All she sees in him is the good. She is also completely dependent on him because she has not only become addicted to the relationship but to the drugs that go hand in hand with that relationship. "I can be your China doll If you like to see me fall." I can be your china doll in reference to China White Heroin and that she is like his baby doll, but just as a baby doll she is dependent on her "owner" of sorts and is susceptible to "falling" should he decide to drop her. "Boy, you're so dope, Your love is deadly." His love is intoxicating but he holds the power to be the death of her as her life with him cradles her subsequent demise by addiction "Tell me life is beautiful, They think that I have it all. I'm nothing without you." She appears to "have it all" in this "perfect" union, and to outsiders she is happy with a man whom she loves, but in reality, the love between the two is tainted and all wrapped up in their mutual romance with the drug "All my dreams and all the lights mean Nothing without you." She wouldn't be Bonnie without her Clyde. The lifestyle she knows so well would be incomplete without her partner in crime, oh the quintessential Druggie Romance. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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To me, this song represents the deep relation in the addictive nature between both drugs and abusive relationships. When she sings "He hit me and it felt like a kiss", I believe it's an allusion to this man (most likely a lover or boyfriend) shooting her up ("hitting that vein"). Lana has sung before of this type of drug use in her song Hollywood "One day I'll Drive in a gold Mercades Benz singin opera on Bel Air road. Hair to my ass, we'll be flyin in the wind, shootin heroin and speedballs." I believe in this song she sings of the internal battle in one's own heart that comes along with addiction and also that can be represented in abusive relationships, to truly feel the thing you love most is killing you, but that life would not be worth living without it. |
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